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20th January, Wednesday, there is a meeting of the Haringey Council Scrutiny committee meeting at which Rob Larkman, Chief Executive of the Whittington Hospital will speak. It’s at 6pm – at the Haringey Civic Centre, High Road, N22. Campaigners from the Defend Haringey Health Services are going and would welcome our mutual support.

21st January, Thursday, meeting of the Defend the Whittington Hospital Coalition, Whittington Community Centre, Yerbury Road N19. All are welcome to help plan the campaign.

25th January, Monday, public meeting at Archway Methodist Church Hall at 7.00pm at which Rachel Tyndall of North London Central NHS will reply to questions put to her at the last public meeting.

Go to whatever you can, no-one is expecting everyone to attend all three.

Probably the most important is the one on the 25th as a good presence is necessary to show how strongly people object to the closure proposals directly to the NHS officials. Read more…

Despite really treacherous conditions on pavements and roads, last night, we had a brilliantly attended planning meeting.

We had a great range of people there – one of our MPs, our local vicar, all the main political parties, representatives from residents’ groups, The Highgate Society, trade unions, etc.

We decided to campaign using the attached petition with our friends, neighbours, local surgeries and stalls outside the Whittington, Holloway and Archway tubes, etc. We will also be contacting local groups and charities. Please feel free to contact these groups and campaign where you can. Feedback to this email address would be handy. It is a good idea to do collections for the campaign. Again please let us know about the outcomes in terms of petitions and funds.

The attached A5 leaflets can be printed two sided.

Completed petitions should be handed into the Whittington Community Centre in an envelope with our name on. We are planning to hand these into the relevant person at the relevant time. This will probably be the Department for Health, possibly in the week after our demo.

There will be stalls on Saturday at Archway tube and outside Selby/Morrisons in Holloway Rd at 12. Please join us! Hopefully these will continue around our area on a regular basis.

On January 25th Rachel Tyndall, Chief Executive of the North Central NHS, will be speaking at a public meeting organised by Jeremy Corbyn – 7.00, 25th Jan at Archway Hall in the middle of Archway roundabout. She is being asked to respond to the questions asked of her in the last public meeting. Please make every effort to attend this important event.

We are planning to hold our demonstration on 27th February at 12 from Highbury Fields to the Whittington. It is really important that this is as big as possible. Someone had a great idea about everyone wearing cat masks. Again, please let people know about it.

Our next planning meeting is on 21st January at 7 at the Whittington Centre and fortnightly thereafter.

Please let any interested party know they are welcome to our planning meetings and to join the campaign, petition, etc. and to contribute to our funds!

What we are fighting for

* We are opposed to the rundown, closure or privatisation of all hospitals and hospital departments and any other key health services in North London.

* We want to stop the sell-off of our NHS.

* We call for the repeal of the Health and Social Care Act - the government measure which opened the way for big private companies to take over our hospitals and health services and shut them down if they don't make enough profit.

* We call for full funding of our NHS to meet our health needs, free at the point of delivery.

* We are proud of our caring staff at the Hospital, and welcome the diversity of the staff.